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With nanomedicine, the strategy is not to poison cancer cells or to blast them away but to trick them
March 01, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
The White House wants to fund a huge project that would allow scientists to see, in real time, how a brain does its work.
February 25, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
A different type of stem cell—one used in asexual reproduction—can create new heart muscle tissue without raising ethical questions, new studies show
February 23, 2013
| By Marina Koren
The renowned chimp expert discusses her new book, her efforts to protect the rainforest and why she misses living with chimps
February 21, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
Napoleon Chagnon’s new memoir reignites the firestorm over his study of the Yanomamö
March 2013
| By Joshua Hammer
Often described as “uncontacted,” isolated groups living deep in the South American forest resist the ways of the modern world—at least for now
March 2013
| By Joshua Hammer
Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages
March 2013
| By Ron Rosenbaum
The dumb dog days are over, says evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare
February 20, 2013
| By Amy Crawford
Want to know where the poor live? Look at where the light isn’t
March 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
Last week's close encounters with space rocks have raised concerns about how we deal with dangerous asteroids. Here's how we would try to knock them off course.
February 19, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Don't understand love? Not to worry. Scientists continue to study away to try to make sense of it for the rest of us
February 13, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
They have recently been the subject of a lot of scrutiny, but the American military first began developing similar aerial vehicles during World War I
February 12, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
The debate over drones stirs up questions about whether robots can learn ethical behavior. Will they be able to make moral decisions?
February 08, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
In a new book, Louis Michael Seidman claims that arguing about the constitutionality of laws and reforms is the cause of our harsh political discourse
February 05, 2013
| By Amy Crawford
Sportswriter Dave Zirin counts the ways that political issues have infiltrated sports at every level
February 01, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
Pro football is turning to screens--some massive, others on smart phones--to try to keep its fans entertained.
February 01, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
By using genetic modification and a florescent-sensitive probe, Japanese scientists captured a zebrafish's thought in real-time
January 31, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
We're getting closer to the day when your smartphone knows you have a cold before you do
January 30, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
What it means to be single and looking for love in the time of algorithms
January 29, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
The ship that went aground one year ago is slowly but surely being turned upright and salvaged
February 2013
| By Mark Strauss
When was the first-ever rocket built?
February 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
Geoffrey Khan is racing to document Aramaic, the language of Jesus, before its native speakers vanish
February 2013
| By Ariel Sabar
As cities like New York prepare for what appears to be a future of more extreme weather, the focus increasingly is on following nature's lead.
January 23, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
And ending sentences with a preposition is nothing worth worrying about
February 2013
| By Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellarman
Scientists are busy tracking the sources of stolen uranium in the hopes of deterring crime—and prevent the weapons getting into the wrong hands
February 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
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